IBM
WebSphere Portal and IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience solutions have been the
market leader in web experience for more than a decade. IBM Worklight is a new,
complete mobile enterprise application platform for delivering native, hybrid, and
web applications. This article explains how to enable support for both Android and
iOS smartphone applications during the enablement of WebSphere Portal and
Worklight integration. This exercise augments the sample presented in Part 1 and
demonstrates how to build an iPhone application and dynamically include the
appropriate Worklight V6.0 resources.

This paper describes the procedure for installing a cluster of IBM Sametime Gateway Servers in a network deployment to allow internal Sametime communities to communicate with instant messaging communities that are hosted outside of the intranet.

Building on Part 6 of this series on integrating IBM® WebSphere® Portal with IBM Worklight®, this article explains how you can leverage web content meta data and dynamic rules running inside of IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager in an IBM Worklight mobile application. By leveraging the rules defined in Web Content Manager, you have one central place where business users and marketers can define promotions, and other dynamic and personalized content. This retail store example shows how you can combine the native geo-location feature of a mobile device with Web Content Manager's dynamic personalization rules that offer content based on the current user's context, location, or history. This opens up the possibility of a whole new set of applications that can be implemented using Worklight and Web Content Manager together, while
keeping the content, its meta data, and the rules stored in Web Content Manager.

Application virtualization provides a simple solution for managing and maintaining the IBM Notes life cycle on the Windows operating systems. The IBM Notes collaboration rich client software provides full support for applications both on-line and offline, an intuitive user interface and takes full advantage of the host machines resources.

IBM Entrepreneur Week is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for you to meet, interact, and connect with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, industry leaders, and academics from around the world. If you're a startup or entrepreneur, join us onlne for our inaugural IBM Entrepreneur Week, 3-7 Feb 2014. There will be events taking place online and in locations worldwide, including face-to-face and virtual mentoring sessions, a women entrepreneur-focused event, and a LiveStream broadcast of the SmartCamp Global Finals in San Francisco.

IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience solutions have
been the market leader in web experience for more than a decade. IBM Worklight is a new, complete mobile enterprise application platform for delivering native, hybrid, and web applications. This article explains how WebSphere Portal and Worklight together enable enterprise users to provide multi-channel site support to their web communities. An exercise using IBM Worklight Developer Edition 6.0 to build a hybrid Android application for viewing WebSphere Portal pages is included.

IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience solutions have been the market leader in web experience for more than a decade. IBM Worklight is a new, complete mobile enterprise application platform for delivering native, hybrid, and web applications. This article explains how to enable support for both Android and iOS applications during the enablement of WebSphere Portal and Worklight integration. This exercise augments the sample presented in Part 1 and demonstrates how to build an iOS application and dynamically include the appropriate Worklight resources.

More and more, enterprises are providing multi-channel support to their
web channel communities. This article explains how IBM WebSphere Portal and
IBM Worklight enable enterprises to create Worklight applications capable of
automatically logging a user in upon startup, while also using single sign-on
(SSO) to log the user into a WebSphere Portal server on the same host at the
same time. This makes it easy for mobile apps to display portal pages
customized to the user from within the application.

IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience solutions have
been the market leader in web experience for more than a decade. IBM Worklight
is a new, complete mobile enterprise application platform for delivering
native, hybrid, and web applications. This article explains how WebSphere
Portal and Worklight together enable enterprise users to provide multi-channel
site support to their web communities. An exercise using IBM Worklight
Developer Edition 5.0 to build a hybrid Android application for viewing
WebSphere Portal pages is included.

There are a lot of tutorials and articles
describing how to configure reverse proxy software to
protect the access to IBM iNotes Mails or build a HA access
to Domino Servers, but none of them really shows how to
configure a reverse proxy in a way that users are
automatically redirected to their Domino Mail server. This
article shows how an Apache Reverse Proxy can be configured
to achieve this goal.

This article introduces the new command line option for installing IBM Connections Desktop 4.0 plug-ins for Microsoft Windows. We explain the background on why we added this new command line option to the installer and then show how to use the new option.

This article describes an application with which you can create, manage, and delete a persistent meeting room to create a schedule online meeting rooms option. Using the application, you can realize all the advantages of the Ajax-based meeting room of IBM Sametime Meeting Server 8.5, along with all functionalities of the “classic” Schedule Meeting feature, and render meetings from various interfaces such as via the Desktop, Mobile through the Web, or via the Sametime Connect Client.

The current documentation for the IBM Sametime Proxy SDK refers to using the Dojo Toolkit to provide integration into a user's Web application. However, many applications do not use Dojo as their JavaScript framework. This article explains how to enable presence awareness with no external JavaScript toolkit, that is, by using simple JavaScript.

Starting with version 8.0, the IBM Lotus Notes Client uses the IBM Lotus Expeditor Client as its framework. Lotus Expeditor is based on Eclipse, and all functions are packaged as plugins/features, so that means all functions in Lotus Notes are packaged as features/plugins. In this article, we explain seven approaches on managing features in the Notes 8.5.x Client.

Learn how to model and easily deploy your IBM Sametime 8.5.2 IFR 1 deployment on Linux. This paper describes a new script-based deployment tool for IBM Sametime that allows you to quickly create a set of deployment models, featuring the most efficient and costeffective groupings of Sametime servers, or packages. It covers the most widely used deployment scenarios for each of the functional components and includes detailed steps to expand the deployment from a small user base to a large user base.

Learn about the new IBM Connections 4.0 Discuss This feature that allows you to add any Web page-even a non-Connections Web page-into Connections as a Forum topic, making it easier to use forums to share information and collaborate with others.

IBM Web Experience Factory is a powerful model-based tool for rapidly developing custom portlets and web applications that are optimized for mobile and desktop devices. IBM Worklight is a complete mobile enterprise application platform for delivering native, hybrid, and web applications. This article shows how you can use the two together to easily build a highly functional application that can be installed on a mobile device, providing transactional functionality along with access to device features, such as the camera. The resulting example application could be part of a complete multi-channel web site that is built and managed using IBM WebSphere Portal.

Down time is a major concern for most users when performing a migration. This article summarizes the best practices for migrating from IBM Connections 3.0.1 to 4.0, based on our experience with customer support. We explain how to upgrade databases and the steps for Content Store and IBM WebSphere Application Server-side migration.

This article explains how to troubleshoot an IBM Connections 3.0.1 to 4.0 database migration, including the database transfer process, and provides solutions to common issues and advice that can help you avoid the issues in the first place.

Learn about the new IBM Connections 4.0 plug-ins installer for IBM Lotus Notes. This new installer is based on the Addon installer but has some differences from the existing Connections plug-ins for Lotus Notes installer.

The IBM Connections 4.0 Metrics application has four kinds of roles: "metrics-report-run", "admin", "community-metrics-run", and "metrics-reader". This article introduces these roles, including their purpose and default mapped user, and what they do within Connections Metrics.

At times the IBM Notes standard client's custom plug-ins can interfere with the product's startup, exit, or routine usage. If not used properly, the APIs provided by the Notes client can lead to problems. The article presents some of the best practices to avoid any impact to the core product as well as useful tips for plug-in developers.

Learn all about the many types of IBM Connections 4.0 Metrics reports. We begin by discussing some common terms that appear in many reports, and we then categorize the metrics reports into particular types and then explain each category and Metrics report.

Metrics is a new component in IBM Connections 4.0 supported by IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence, which is installed as a part of a Connections deployment. So if you want to configure IBM Connections to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), you must deal with the Cognos part as well. This article explains how to configure SSL for a Connections server with Metrics installed, focusing on the SSL configuration for Cognos.

The purpose of this guide is to help you troubleshoot an IBM Sametime Unified Telephony (SUT) Lite Client deployment. It includes information on how to diagnose common problems, starting with product activation and continuing through making and receiving calls.

The IBM Sametime Community Server is the last single component that still uses the IBM Lotus Domino Server, and we experience crashes in this area that require a good skill set to be able to diagnose why IBM Sametime causes Lotus Domino to crash. This article explains the basics of troubleshooting IBM Sametime Community Server crashes.

Moderation is a component in IBM® Connections 4.0 that allows moderators and Community owners to better control what is displayed in certain applications. Moderators can review Blogs, Forums, and Files content before it is posted to Connections, and manage content after it is added to IBM Connections. This article provides a detailed introduction to Connections Moderation configurations so you can better understand and use it.

IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) removes attachments from databases and streamlines the use of attachments on a server. This article examines the methods that Administrators can use to archive the databases, taking DAOS into account, to allow a full recovery of the database and all its attachments.

Among the new features in IBM Connections 4.0 is the Mail-in feature or, as we call it in this article, ReplyTo, which allows you to make new posts to Forums by replying to an email notification. There are a number of configuration steps that must be performed to enable this feature, both on the WebSphere Portal server and on the mail server being used. This article describes how the ReplyTo feature works and the steps required to enable it successfully.

OpenSocial gadgets are small components written in XML, HTML, and JavaScript that display custom content. This white paper explains how to develop gadgets for IBM Connections 4.0, primarily focusing on using the developer bootstrap page for quickly testing gadgets

An IBM Lotus Notes rich text field is an important, special type of field into which you can enter simple text, formatted text, and all types of attachments, and is used by almost every Notes developer. This article provides a detailed description of how to use them.

This Reviewer's Guide provides an extensive overview of the latest version of IBM’s social software, IBM Connections 4.0, and its nine applications: Home, Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, Forums, and Wikis. In addition, this guide explains how to extend the features and functions of IBM Connections to your existing applications.

The IBM Connections Portlets internally uses IBM WebSphere Portal features like Page Properties (Page Parameters), Property Broker events, and Public Render Parameters to interact among each other, and these features can also be used to interact with other Portal applications.
This article describes all three approaches and uses a sample out-of-box portlet (attached below) to help demonstrate these various integration points and debugging. The attachment also contains the source code of the sample portlet that can help developers extend these integration points to their applications.

This article describes how you can work with file attachments in Lotus Connectors LotusScript Extension (LCLSX). We show how LCLSX handles file attachments and present a sample application to demonstrate file attachment processing.

Configuring IBM Lotus Notes Traveler to use a High Availability Pool requires special configuration steps. This document describes the step-by-step process to configure Notes Traveler High Availability with an enterprise Microsoft SQL database.

IBM Connections is social software for business, offering Profiles,
Communities, Blogs, Files, Wikis, Activities, and Bookmarks. In this practice exercise,
learn how you can brand and customize the IBM Connections user experience to meet your
business needs.

IBM Connections is social software for business. IBM Connections includes
several social applications, including Profiles, Communities, Blogs, Files, Wikis, Activities, and
Bookmarks. Learn how to brand and customize the IBM Connections user experience to meet
your business needs.

This article guides you through the installation and configuration of IBM
Connections 3.0.1, covering important details that will make your implementation smooth
and headache-free. After completing this article, you should be able to understand all
components involved in an IBM Connections deployment and be able to make better decisions
regarding your organization's needs.

Ever wonder how to really know what the status of your IBM Lotus Sametime environment is? Discover how Lotus Sametime can be monitored, in terms of both function and performance, from the user perspective. This article describes (and provides) a simple lightweight proactive tool to assist administrators in better understanding the Lotus Sametime user experience to reduce outages, respond to issues more quickly, and improve the customer experience. In addition to monitoring capabilities, this tool can assist in debug collection and take the burden off users for problem recreates and data collection. By combining network validation with Lotus Sametime IM, user awareness, user login, and username look-up validation, never before has such a complete picture of the user experience been available.

Configuring IBM Lotus Notes Traveler to use a High Availability Pool requires special configuration steps. This document describes the step-by-step process to configure Notes Traveler High Availability with an enterprise IBM DB2 database.

This paper explains the steps on how to configure Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) on a federated deployment for IBM Sametime Community Server, Meeting Server, Proxy Server, Media Manager, Advanced Server, and the Connect Client. SPNEGO enables the SSO mechanism for Microsoft Windows clients that are part of a Microsoft Active Directory Domain.

IBM Forms automates forms-based business processes to help improve efficiency, customer service, and time to value, making you more responsive to customer and market needs. IBM Forms are used in different industry sectors like government, banking, insurance etc.

The IBM Connections portlets render social data from IBM Connections in the WebSphere Portal environment, and IBM strategically promotes the integration of Connections with WebSphere Portal using IBM Connections portlets. Customers and Business Partners can download the IBM Connections 3.x Portlets for WebSphere Portal from the Business Solution Catalog and customize them per their requirements.

The IBM Support Tools portlet for IBM Web Content Manager (WCM) is one of the most widely used applications to troubleshoot issues related to Java Content Repository nodes. The tool does not ship with the WCM product, however, and lacks detailed documentation for users. This white paper explains how to install, set up, and use the Support Tools portlet.

It sometimes makes sense to leave users completely in charge of their workstations, giving them complete latitude on installation and product and software versions. However, it can turn into an IT administration headache when direct management is required, for example, to make sure that a certain component has been brought to a required service-pack level to ensure compatibility with a company server.
This is particularly true for modular client software such the IBM® Sametime® client which, through its underlying Eclipse and Lotus® Expeditor platform, offers infinite customization possibilities through the addition of new plug-ins or extension of existing ones.
To mitigate this problem, this article describes and implements a lightweight and extensible framework to track and manage the configuration information of the Sametime client and plug-ins inside an organization.

IBM Web Content Manager in IBM WebSphere Portal can make
use of dynacache instances to store rendered content retrieved from Web
Content Manager when advanced caching is enabled. This caching improves
response time and reduces load on the database. WebSphere eXtreme Scale and
the XC10 caching appliance offers an implementation of dynacache that stores cached content in an elastic data grid instead of using the default dynacache implementation, which stores cached content in IBM WebSphere Application Server heap space or on disk. This article examines the significant performance benefits of moving the WebSphere Portal advanced cache content into a data grid hosted by an XC10 caching appliance without requiring any application code changes.

Learn how to set up a Notes.ini backup utility for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, which takes the backup of the Notes.ini file, whenever there was a change on the file. The backup copy would be the copy of the Notes.ini file, without that change.

This article provides a brief overview of Forms and Solr technologies and illustrated instructions on implementing a real business scenario. It then explains how to configure and install both products, how to integrate them to obtain an intelligent search of Forms Experience Builder view response documents, and how we can present it on the Web, using Ajax Solr (a JavaScriptTM framework for creating user interfaces to Apache Solr.

Single sign-on (SSO) enables users to log in to one application of IBM Sametime and switch to other applications and resources without having to authenticate again. There are several different ways to configure SSO. This procedure describes one approach, in which we use an IBM WebSphere® Application Server Lightweight Third-party Authentication (LTPA) key and WebSEAL transparent junctions.

This white paper describes our analysis and approach to measuring the distribution of transaction times during a five-day workload run of the IBM Lotus Domino, IBM SmartCloud Engage, and IBM Lotus Quickr for Domino Enterprise applications and provides a qualitative assessment of each dataset.

In this white paper we discuss the technical reasons why the IBM Lotus Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) needs Domino transaction logging as a pre-requisite and describe how to configure transaction logging to best meet the needs of DAOS.

This article outlines the steps for installing IBM® Lotus Quickr 8.5.1 for Domino on Microsoft Windows. For additional details and installation steps on other operating systems, review the product documentation topic, "Installing and upgrading."

The intent of this article is to give you an insight into the real-world scenarios occurring with IBM Connections 3.0.1 with respect to IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) scripts and user population. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with basic concepts of TDI and its corresponding usage in IBM Connections Profiles population activity.
For details on setting up TDI and IBM Connections 3.0.1, refer to the IBM Connections 3.0.1 product documentation topic, “Configuring Tivoli Directory Integrator.”

Learn how to configure and deploy the IBM Lotus iNotes (formerly known as IBM Lotus Domino Web Access) with IBM Lotus Domino 8.x and 8.5.x Off-Line Services (DOLS), including how to archive locally and how to use DOLS on clustered mail servers. This white paper focuses on how to implement DOLS functionality, covering best practices and tips for planning the DOLS deployment.

This document details the tooling that was used during a recent performance-related customer engagement. It describes the tools and how they were used to evaluate IBM WebSphere Portal 7 performance / problem determination issues.

This article presents a detailed scenario for integrating IBM Connections 3.0.1 with IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5.1 for Domino. It can help you show a user’s Profile from Quickr, publish an Activity attachment to Quickr, and create a community with a Quickr Teamspace.

This article provides a hands-on exercise to leverage Reverse AJAX in portlets using Dojo CometD foundation and the Web messaging service component of the Feature Pack for Web 2.0. It demonstrates a scenario in which an open channel is kept between a client's browser and the IBM® WebSphere® Portal server so that WebSphere Portal can push updates to the client as soon as they are available.

Google Chart Tools provide a rich set of visualization capabilities, such as
scatter chart and gauge, that complement the chart types available with the
IBM Mashup Center charting widget. You will see how Google Chart Images can be
used with IBM Mashup Center to generate markers on the Navteq mapping widget.
In addition, the article describes the building of a custom widget that uses
Google Chart Tools API to visualize data from enterprise data feeds.

IBM Mashup Center is a powerful tool aimed at gaining insight and
sharing information by rapidly assembling and visualizing data. This article
shares some of the essential "need-to-know" tips we have collected in our
experience with the product. In the first article in the series, we reviewed
the components of IBM Mashup Center and some terminology, and then provided
you with nine practical tips on working with feeds and building Data Mashups.
Whereas the previous article focused on the "data site" of a mashup, in this
this article we'll cover the presentation layer of a mashup - the "Mashup
Builder". This article applies to Mashup Center version 2 and version
3.

This article describes a set of APIs which enable programmatic access
and management of Domino servers on IBM i. The article includes code examples
to demonstrate the usage of APIs to perform these tasks.

IBM Mashup Center comes with widgets for displaying data in different
formats, for example in a table, on a map or in a chart. These widgets allow
very quick page assembly but normally only provides a limited set of
customization like font size, alignment color. To have greater control on the
presentation, IBM Mashup Center Version 3 supports the generation of any XML
directly using data from enterprise data sources. This article shows how you
can generate HTML (XHTML to be specific since the feed is well-formed) for
more distinctive presentation using the data mashup builder. In addition, the
article describes a simple widget that can display arbitrary HTML and can
intercept mouse clicks to trigger events that can be wired to other
widgets.

The ability to integrate with IBM® Enterprise Content Management was introduced in IBM Lotus® Quickr® 8.5 for Domino®. In this article we discuss how it works and how to configure and use related features. It's assumed that you're familiar with Lotus Quickr and that you've already installed Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino.

Part of developerWorks Lotus is IBM Lotus Domino-based. If you connect to it using an IBM Lotus Notes client, you can use Notes features such as replication. This article provides the steps to connect to the site databases and offers troubleshooting tips for making the connection.

Learn how to use IBM Lotus Notes, contribute to its product knowledge base, and collaborate with others. Find IBM Product Documentation and Learning Center materials, including how-to videos and getting started materials, and supplemental articles written by Lotus community members.

Learn how to use IBM Lotus Domino, contribute to its product knowledge base, and collaborate with others. Find IBM Product Documentation and Learning Center materials, including how-to videos and getting started materials, and supplemental articles written by Lotus community members.

Learn how to use IBM Lotus Quickr, contribute to its product knowledge base, and collaborate with others. Find IBM Product Documentation and Learning Center materials, including how-to videos and getting started materials, and supplemental articles written by Lotus community members.

Continue building an example application that
augments IBM Lotus Connections Profiles pages with information about
research grant awards and academic research interests. Unstructured source
data is gathered and persisted to a text analytics collection point. Learn
about the server-side implementation of the custom widgets, and how they
employ Content Analytics analysis. You'll also build a custom crawler.